Agence France-Presse
July 11, 2006

The Asian Development Bank loan is to be spent on upgrading wastewater treatment facilities, expanding collection networks and building larger stormwater pumping stations for the city of Wuhan.

China is to get a 100 million-dollar loan from the Asian Development Bank to clean up the polluted waterways of the industrial city of Wuhan, the Philippines-based lender has said. The project would build or upgrade wastewater treatment facilities, repair and extend collection networks, and add larger stormwater pumping stations for the city of eight million people. . . . Despite abundant water resources, 56 percent of [China’s] rivers and 89 percent of its lakes are now polluted due to wastewater discharge, some of it untreated. Sewers overflow in the wet season.